Definition of broad-based in US English:
broad-based
adjectiveˌbrôdˈbāstˌbrɔdˈbeɪst
Wide-ranging; general.
we expect to see broad-based support
an introductory broad-based course
Example sentencesExamples
- Korea's export growth has been quite broad-based.
- The editors and contributors are part of a broad-based network, including trade-union leaders, researchers, members of the ravaged communities, academics and campaigners.
- Four of these proposals attracted broad-based support.
- The marketing department engaged in broad-based, old-fashioned grassroots networking.
- Are you going to do a broad-based search for a manager?
- We can match music to a campaign in ways that were impossible when the approach was more general and broad-based.
- Such a broad-based, genuinely diverse movement might actually have an impact.
- The collection is broad-based, but the quality level has remained high.
- This broad-based marketing strategy ensures the film's success in mainstream venues.
- The four-year program involved a broad-based education that focused on individual topics for specified periods of time.
- The construction slowdown is gaining momentum and it is broad-based.
- People with a general or broad-based experience are a dime a dozen and the only way they get work is to work cheap.
- I like to think that I have a fairly broad-based sense of humor.
- Bullish pundits and media commentators are quick to credit news of a strengthening economy for fueling this week's broad-based stock market rally.
- The humor is reasonably broad-based: not so juvenile that adults will dismiss it, and not so sophisticated that children won't laugh.
- Since the investor cannot beat the market, buying a broad-based market index is likely to earn as good a return with a lot less work.
- What is lacking is broad-based federal and state government support so that apprenticeship programs can succeed.
- The Kennedy Center's education area fosters appreciation for the performing arts as an integral part of a broad-based education.
- China has huge economic and cultural potential, and enjoys broad-based support from the developing world.
- I don't expect Dungeons & Dragons to have much broad-based appeal.
Synonyms
wide-ranging, general, humanistic